Stone House Scribblings

<!--[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->                                                 We send greetings of comfort and joy on a Sunday afternoon in December to all of our friends and family around the world. Another year to watch for miracles and to spread the good news of salvation is before us. We’ve been blessed in the past year and wish… Continue reading The 2015 Christmas Letter

The Christmas letter must be written. And so must the writer’s group packet assignment.  Neither of these pieces will write themselves. Effort and forethought and vision must take place in my head and heart. It’s time, again.I must get an idea. Build on it and maybe make an outline of it.  Write it out. Get… Continue reading The Christmas Letter

 Rain and clouds and no snow continues. Every day the sky is cloudy and grey.  Many of our customers are really quite pleased with no snow. I have assumed that people who live in Wisconsin or Minnesota enjoy winter best with snow. But I want snow.    Along with cloudy days come the need for Vitamin… Continue reading Rain, D3, And Simply Pretty For Christmas

    The grass is greening up. Yes, we are in December. Headed into the weekend that we usually have us a delightful blizzard or at least a snowstorm here in Wisconsin. Not this year.  We're disappointed.    We're disappointed in more than one way. Green Christmases in Wisconsin are not actually unheard of, but they're rare… Continue reading Snowless Winter?

<!--[if !mso]>st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->                                     We are home from another big weekend with our children, grandchildren, siblings, in-laws, and parents; a wonderful ingathering for Thanksgiving in Nebraska. Even though we love all of our family immensely; it is great to be home to our own little home in the north woods. I’ll admit immediately… Continue reading Our Real Life Now

It is a cold, blustery November day. It is a cozying-my-cottage type of day inside. First thing I did was to dump out the "fresh" coffee made from a generic can of coffee grounds from Wal-mart. Only thing that stuff is good for is the drain, truly. Found the last of Gabe's home roasted beans… Continue reading Posting From My Hearth

A glimpse into Sunday evening at home while everybody was here the other weekend. On the menu were those little pig-in-a-blanket snacks of a mini hot-dogs individually rolled in it's own blanket of dough and baked. The girls moved the prep operation out to the dining room table for space to work and immediately had… Continue reading How To Get Children To Work

 We are having cold, rainy days. Tonight we are to get our first snow. Supper should be warming and comforting. We have a pack of wild rice from Bemidji, Minnesota that I have been looking forward to cooking up.                         Wild Rice Soup     4 or 5 medium potatoes    1 lb Venison Sausage   1 cup… Continue reading Wild Rice Soup

    I left them on the curb at ORD this morning. I kissed that baby and made myself buck up and not cry. They disappeared into the maw of steel and glass. And I can't believe I got back into my car and drove away.     Everybody was home this weekend. And we had… Continue reading Empty House Full Heart